The origins of economic nationalism -- Economic nationalism and high-volume production -- The corporation and the national interest -- The national champion -- The national bargain -- The presumed problem -- From high volume to high value -- The new web of enterprise -- The diffusion of ownership and control -- The global web -- The end of the national champion -- The coming irrelevance of corporate nationality -- The perils of vestigial thought -- The three jobs of the future -- A degression on symbolic analysis and market incentive -- American incomes -- Why the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer -- The education of the symbolic analyst (I) -- The education of the symbolic analyst (II) -- The problem restated -- The decline of public investment -- The uses of vestigial thought -- The new community -- The politics of secession -- Who is "us"?
An analysis of what nations must do if their citizens are to flourish in the twenty-first century